Halictus limbellus Morawitz, 1876

Astafurova, Yulia V. & Proshchalykin, Maxim Yu., 2020, The bees of the family Halictidae (Hymenoptera) described by Ferdinand Morawitz from the collection of Aleksey Fedtschenko, ZooKeys 994, pp. 35-104 : 35

18. Halictus limbellus Morawitz, 1876 Figure 14

Halictus limbellus Morawitz, 1876: 218 (key), 249, ♀.

Type locality.

Samarkand (Uzbekistan).

Published (original) locality.

Uzbekistan: Samarkand; Tajikistan: Peti.

Lectotype (designated here).

♀, 5.[IV.1869] // Самаркандъ [Uzbekistan, Samarkand, 39°39'N, 66°57'E] // Halictus limbellus Mor., [N]377 [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Lectotypus Halictus limbellus Mor., Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2020 <red label> [ZMMU].

Paralectotypes

(3 ♀). 1 ♀, 5.[IV.1869] // Самаркандъ [Samarkand] // [N]377 // Typus <red label> [ZMMU]; 1 ♀, <golden circle> // 5.[IV.1869] // Самаркандъ [Samarkand] // Halictus limbellus F. Mor., Typ. [handwritten by F. Morawitz]; 1 ♀, Самаркандъ [Samarkand] // к.[оллекция] Ф. Моравица [Collection of F. Morawitz] // limbellus Mor., Typ. [handwritten by F. Morawitz] // Paralectotypus Halictus limbellus Mor., Astafurova et Proshchalykin, 2020 <identical red labels on each paralectotype specimen> [ZISP].

Current status.

Lasioglossum (Hemihalictus) limbellum (Morawitz, 1876).

Remarks.

Description of male. Blüthgen 1930: 763.

The lectotype designation by Warncke (1982: 69) is invalid because he labelled no female of the two females from Samarkand deposited in ZMMU.

Distribution.

Central and eastern Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (North Caucasus), Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, China (Gansu) ( Pesenko 2007, Astafurova and Proshchalykin 2017, Murao et al. 2017).

Figures

Figure 14. Halictus limbellus Morawitz, 1876, lectotype, female A habitus, lateral view and labels B head, frontal view C mesosoma, dorsal view D metasoma, dorsal view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (A), 0.5 mm (B-D).